Robert Sayer | The Florist, London, c.1760, contemporary calf

Robert Sayer

The Florist, containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos’d in their succession of blooming. London: I. Smith and R. Sayer, c.1760

4to (215 x 140mm.), engraved pictorial title, coloured by hand, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed and slightly worn

"One of the earliest of the drawing and colouring books, which was copied by Bowles, but with the same subjects re-engraved on new plates", according to Dunthorne.

LITERATURE:

ESTC T470741; Henrey, 707–709 (slightly different issues); Nissen BBI 1734; Dunthorne 272; Great Flower Books, p. 75